Lebanon too is girding up to counter the US-Israeli UNSC motion condemning Hizballah’s tunnels which is due to be aired on Wednesday, Dec. 19. The fourth tunnel was unearthed on Sunday. Israel will present evidence of the tunnels violating its sovereignty and providing a gateway for Hizballah to conduct cross-border raids for terror. The US plans to use this evidence for a motion to declare Hizballah a terrorist organization.However, as a precondition for gaining the votes of all 15 members, the Israeli account must be backed up by UNIFIL’s confirmation. There lies the first rub. It is highly doubtful that the international force’s commander Gen. Stafano De Col, of Italy will provide this confirmation.The Lebanese government’s strategy designed by President Michel Aoun was outlined in detail by the London-based Arab paper Al-Hayat on Saturday.These are the high points:

None of the tunnels Hizballah is accused of digging for the purpose of terrorism have exits on the Israeli side of the border.

Israeli claims they were excavated as of 2013. Lebanon has proofs that some date back to 2006 and are decrepit and in disuse.

One or two may have reached under the “Blue Line” (which the UN marked out on the border in 2000), but the Lebanese delegation will insist that this is not a significant violation of UNSC Resolution 1701, which terminated the 2006 Israeli-Hizballah war. In contrast, they will point to Israel as committing far more substantial infringements– both in the course of its Operation Northern Shield and beforehand.

UNIFIL has no proof of where the tunnels start (because it has no mandate to enter private homes on the Lebanese side of the border.)

Lebanese sources admit quite openly that President Michel Aoun’s presentation of the Lebanese case to the Security Council is designed to consolidate his cooperation with Hizballah as the dominant force in Beirut for establishing a stable government. A transitional administration is currently in office. Therefore, if the Israeli government had hoped its tunnel operation would loosen the ties the president and Lebanese army maintain with Hizballah, Aoun has turned the tables by using it as a tool for further cementing the partnership.

This is not the only obstacle standing in the way of a UNSC resolution in Israel’s favor. US Security of State Mike Pompeo and Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu counted on UNIFIL playing ball with Israel’s tunnel operation – or else, it was suggested, the US would chop its funding. But UNIFIL will have to be counted out.

Excepting Greece alone, which has strong military and economic ties with Israel, all the other governments contributing personnel to UNIFIL are against the Middle East policies the US and Israel pursue and do not share their view of Hizballah as a bad player. Indeed, Italy, France, Germany, Ireland, Austria, Holland and Spain interpret the Israeli tunnel operation as part and parcel of the joint US-Israeli drive against Iran and the US sanctions regime, to which they are opposed. Italy’s deputy prime minister Matteo Salvini,when he visited Israel, was briefly willing to declare Hizballah “Islamicterrorists” after Israel asked him to use his influence with Gen. Del Col to try and bring UNIFIL in line. But then, the Italian defense ministry issued a statement formally and strongly disavowing Salvini’s declaration, accusing him of placing the Italian troops posted on the Lebanese-Israeli border in harm’sway.

In these circumstances, it is hard to see the proposed US condemnation of Hizballah gaining Security Council approval without running into a veto. At best, the Council will urge both parties to refrain from military escalation on their common border, thereby opening the door for Israel to be directed to discontinue its Operation Northern Shield. It will then be up to the US to apply its veto to kill that motion.

While Israel’s major tunnel operation seemed to be heading for a diplomatic stalemate, the Israeli government and military were caught unawares last week by the Palestinian Hamas initiative to counter-balance its slowdown of violence in the Gaza Strip by inflaming a second terror front in Judea and Samaria, It claimed the lives of two soldiers and a four-day old infant as well as a number of critically injured casualties. Hamas cells, including some of the perpetrators, are still at large looking for more Israeli victims – even in the face of a heavily reinforced Israeli military presence. This time round the terrorists are plentifully provided with sidearms and vehicles. And so, while the prime minister and IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Gady Eisenkot were immersed in the tunnel operation on the northern border and counted on Qatar’s multimillion-dollar gift to the Gaza Strip for pacifying the southern front, the same Hamas switched its attention to the West Bank and opened up a third front.Maj-Gen. (res.) Gady Shamni, former head of the IDF’s Central Comment, said the spiraling crises had grown out of the “kid gloves” policy with which the IDF and government had greeted months of heightened Hamas aggression from the Gaza Strip.

Nothing can compare to Assad and the 500,000 dead in Syria. The majority of Jews in Israel are from a Middle East background since they mostly came from Arab countries. The European element has never been bigger than the Middle Eastern one there.

Maj-Gen. (res.) Gady Shamni, former head of the IDF’s Central Comment, said the spiraling crises had grown out of the “kid gloves” policy with which the IDF and government had greeted months of heightened Hamas aggression from the Gaza Strip.

Lieberman was right to be upset and resign because of Israel giving Hamas a pass. Hamas is doing all of this on instructions from Hezbollah and Iran because it wants to pressure Israel regarding the tunnels.

“UNIFIL has no proof of where the tunnels start (because it has no mandate to enter private homes on the Lebanese side of the border.)”….and that’s the keypoint !
Unifil hasn’t the mandate to do that directly, but they HAVE THE MANDATE TO ASK TO LEBANESE ARMY TO LET THEM CHECK anytime they suspect Hez activity in southern lebanon…but they don’t want do that because if they ask, Lebanon will answer NO and that would be the proof of the very deep alleance between Hez and Lebanon regular army. And this is an even greater proof of the total inutility of 1701 resolution. They are Allied vs. Israel, and UN wants continuosly hide this clear truth !!
By the way…what is UN doing about Hariri death ? Many deadlines have been overcome for the international tribunal on Hariri death…why are they still keeping this file well hidden in the drawer ? Very simple…because Hez killed him…and UN, UNIFIL and Lebanon are hostages in Hezbollah/Iran hands. Israel should stop to look this disgusting game without doing anything. Wake up Israel !!

If none of the tunnels Hizballah is accused of digging HAVE EXITS on the Israeli side of the border AND Lebanon has proofs that some date back to 2006 and are decrepit and in disuse THEN this entire issue HAS BEEN MANUFACTURED and is really is about is Bibi getting ready for elections.

Good for Italy, France, Germany, Ireland, Austria, Holland, Spain and others for not believing the standard Israeli / US Zionist lies. If we put the same amount of effort into creating a diplomatic solution for the mess that exists in the occupied territories we would have had Peace a long time ago.

But you prefer act like Nazi’s and murder, steal and lie bring shame on Jews everywhere. How can any of us trust what you say and support you when you behave like this?

Is it any wonder that a great many of us are ashamed by your action and want nothing to do with you?

Its time for a One-State solution to be enforced on Israel and for a WAR CRIMES / TRUTH AND RECONCILIATION TRIBUNAL to be convened to deal with your past crimes and deception. How about a little Truth for a change…

Until then there should be no more economic, military or diplomatic aid to Israel. Rather we need to be passing legislation to support the BDS initiatives and be impose penalties on anyone supporting Israel. The Iranian sanctions regime would be a good template to start with.

NO MORE travel to Israel or for Israeli passport holders, we need to lock the door and FORCE YOU to deal with the situation.

Its time we wash our hands of this whole sordid situation, either YOU step up or be excluded from the world community. When Trump goes and the Democrats come in expect things to change.

NO MORE Jewish support for this Apartheid Nazi State!!

To be Jewish is to be better than this and its about time we cleaned up the perpetual blight on our name that this Nazi Zionism has brought about.

Go live in Islamic nightmare states and you will see the stupidity of your hateful thinking.

You are the kind of guy who loves terrorists and deplores free nation’s. I suggest you live with Hamas, Hezbollah, Iran, Pakistan, Iraq, Saudi, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Syria, etc. for a few years and if you survive shouting your a-hole mouth off, then you might appreciate the West and countries like Israel who want to transform us into their oppressive hellish nightmare Islamic states.

Hmmm, you seem to be expressing left-sided views which are misguided per the Holy Bible. You are expressing the exact sentiment that will usher in and support the coming satan-backed leader that would have disillusioned Israelites believe their messiah has come. The Holy Bible tells us the only true peace for Israel will come when their true messiah, the Christ Jesus, returns. Remember, the Holy Bible is a book of the future. Of course, if you don’t understand this then you are likely not a Christian. Peace.

Yes, a Jewish rabbi. Since Jewish Jesus is the messiah of Israel and therefore the Christ, his faith believers are called disciples. As America has Americans, Christ has Christians. You are clearly not a Christian. Let’s hope that you come to the truth before you pass from this world. Peace.

I stopped supporting Israel a long time ago once i realized that Israel as it stands now is not based on the Tora.

Apartheid Israel is the quintessential ethnostate which is maintained by brute force and deception which is why Zionists continually try to legitimize Zionism and anti-Semites delegitimize Judaism because of it. This causes hated of Jews worldwide.

Like you i look forward to the day that we as the Jewish people become enlightened enough to move beyond this before change is forced upon us and we are shamed forever.

As you said to be Jewish is to be better than this.

The new antisemitism is about destruction of Israel and involves leftists and Islam.

Defending Israel has more to do with saving people’s lives from Islam than anything to do with other important factors like defending Judaism. If you were living in Israel you would also want to be defended and not devoured. Antisemitism in modern times is about building a case against Israel and her people to create another Holocaust – this time carried out by Islam and backed by leftists who hate nation’s and want them replaced by a new world order or Caliphate – it matters not to them which it is.

If there is to be a “new holocaust” it will be brought about by the injustice performed by the religious right through who’s actions results in Judaism being equated with a religion of hate.

Once this happens and we become the new Nazi’s in the eye’s of the world there will be no going back. All that we have achieved will be undone.

Once Israel is isolated and Jews worldwide are distrusted and hated then the old problems will be back. However this time with Islam sweeping the West we will have few places to go and no one to shelter us.

Israel isolated will be destroyed and many of us as well due to the hatred that these shortsighted policies are causing.

I stopped supporting Israel a long time ago once i realized that Israel as it stands now is not based on the Tora.

Apartheid Israel is the quintessential ethnostate which is maintained by brute force and deception which is why Zionists continually try to legitimize Zionism and anti-Semites delegitimize Judaism because of it. This causes hated of Jews worldwide.

Like you i look forward to the day that we as the Jewish people become enlightened enough to move beyond this before change is forced upon us and we are shamed forever.

Gaza is the occupied land, stolen land…. or so anyway according to international Law and universal justice. Unless you believe that the rule of Law should only be applied when convenient?

“The settlers are the invaders, they are in the wrong and always have been…. The anti-Semites delegitimize Judaism because of this and other indefensible actions that are being performed.

Written by Haarets just today, i suggest you read it and consider what is been said.
Their tragedy isn’t ours because they’ve brought the tragedy upon themselves and the entire country. It’s true that the main blame goes to the governments that gave into them, either eagerly or out of weakness, but the settlers cannot be absolved of blame, either. The extorter – and not just those who have given into extortion – is also to blame. But they are there, generations born on stolen land, children raised in an apartheid existence and trained to think it is biblical justice, and with government support.”

Go deal with Syria and your Assad where in 6 years 10 times more people have been killed than in 60 years regarding Israel. All we can see is Assad as part of a small minority hanging onto power at all costs against the majority of Syrians with the help of Iran and Russia.

why is Israel an apartheid state???. All religions and ethnicites are allowed to live in Israel. in peace. You do not mention Saudi Arabia, Iran, Egypt, Pakistan, etc–these are the true apartheid states–where Christians and Jews (those who remain) are murdered or harassed for NO reason. If the Palestinians wanted peace–they could have peace–but not by digging tunnels and launching missiles into Israel on an almost daily basis. Perhaps it is you who are brainwashed to hate and have no realization of the facts. What religions teaches their children to hate–a rhetorical question.

Muslims can’t even get along with fellow Muslims, so how can Muslims ever get along with INFIDELS???

500,000 Muslims have died in Syria thanks to the Civil War (Muslims v Muslims)
Fascist Iran had a war with Iraq where 1,000,000 died.
Iraq invaded Kuwait.
Saudi Arabia fights terrorists in Yemen.
Indonesia kills ethinic Chinese.
Muslims in the Phillipines are trying to carve a Muslim state out of it.
Muslims murder people in London.
Muslims murder people in Paris.
Muslims murder people in Nice France.
Muslims murder people in Mumbai India.
Muslims murder gay people in Fascist Iran.
Muslims murder gay people in Gaza.

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LEONA,you are correct in saying that YESHUA was a Jewish rabbi and He could not be a christian because his deciples were not called christians until after He died on the cross and rose from the dead on the third day just as it was prophesied in the old testament.

A main point of interest, however, is connected with the progress of Christianity among the non-Jewish believers. Tradition holds that the first Gentile church was founded in Antioch, Acts 11:20-21, where it is recorded that the disciples of Jesus Christ were first called Christians Acts 11:19-26.

Easy way to know where the tunnels originate.
You pump into the tunnel enough explosive vapors that when you ignite them they blow away any doors or other barriers within the tunnel.
Then you blow in a brightly colored smoke.
That does two tings: 1) It shows you the source of the tunnel, and 2) it gives a warning to any innocents that you are about to blow in a lot more explosive vapors, that when ignited will blow the top off of the tunnel all along its course.
A few years ago, I forget where, there was a news story where there was a small gasoline leak that ran into the storm drain down the center of a city street filling it with gasoline fumes.
It was somehow ignited causing the entire length of the street to explode upwards, throwing the parked cars along each side into the air and onto the homes that lined the street.
I bet you would get the same destructive result with the tunnels if done properly.
There would be no need to fill the tunnels if they are blown open and then filled with the debris that rains down afterwards.

None of the tunnels Hizballah is accused of digging for the purpose of terrorism have exits on the Israeli side of the border. – This proves that the tunnels were started on the other side in Lebanon first and have not been fully completed yet because Hezbollah was caught in the act before they had a chance to finish it. Only a fully completed tunnel would have an exit on the other side.

Israeli claims they were excavated as of 2013. Lebanon has proofs that some date back to 2006 and are decrepit and in disuse. – Lebanon’s LAF has not let UNIFIL inspect the tunnels from the Lebanese side yet since it is buying Hezbollah time in order to destroy or cover up the tunnels in order to make them look like they were not used and in decrepit and disrepair.

One or two may have reached under the “Blue Line” (which the UN marked out on the border in 2000), but the Lebanese delegation will insist that this is not a significant violation of UNSC Resolution 1701, which terminated the 2006 Israeli-Hizballah war. In contrast, they will point to Israel as committing far more substantial infringements– both in the course of its Operation Northern Shield and beforehand. –
Israel has done this because it has been monitoring that Hezbollah has been fully rearming itself through Syria from Iran for over 12 years in violation of UN1701 with over 150,000 rockets so far and UNIFIL has been able to do nothing since it is located on the Lebanon-Israel border and not on the Lebanon-Syria border.
UNIFIL has no proof of where the tunnels start (because it has no mandate to enter private homes on the Lebanese side of the border.) – All of these Shiite villages in south Lebanon now serve as armed Hezbollah bases from which some of these tunnels were dug from. All of those young men from these villages are Hezbollah agents dressed as civilians that are sitting by the border drinking tea and smoking while taking notes and pictures on behalf of Hezbollah regarding Israeli actions there. The fact that Hezbollah has posted so many pictures showing Israeli soldiers and operations shows that Hezbollah has a presence there in violation of UN1701.
Lebanese sources admit quite openly that President Michel Aoun’s presentation of the Lebanese case to the Security Council is designed to consolidate his cooperation with Hizballah as the dominant force in Beirut for establishing a stable government. A transitional administration is currently in office. Therefore, if the Israeli government had hoped its tunnel operation would loosen the ties the president and Lebanese army maintain with Hizballah, Aoun has turned the tables by using it as a tool for further cementing the partnership. -The Lebanese President Aoun is a Hezbollah ally. The Lebanes House Speaker Berri is a Hezbollah ally. The head of the LAF Aoun’s son is a Hezbollah ally. The head of Lebanese General Security Ibrahim is a Hezbollah ally. Only Prime Minister Hariri ad the head of Internal Security are not Hezbollah allies. However, Putin and Russia are working very hard to win these over. Russia has decided to specifically send Russian arms for the Internal Security in order to have some influence over it. Russia is an ally of Hezbollah.

Everybody knows, that you prefer to go about words and not deeds, threats and not victories and most especially your definition of “goodness” over anything even resembling a triumph in your struggles against the pisslim hordes bent on re-creating in Israel the nazi Holocaust of the 1940’s.
Look, if you are not winning and I mean WINNING, then you are loosing. And you are not winning.
But you think you are playing the “good guys” and that you hold some kind of stupid and not-really-existing “moral high ground”
Why?
Because you are letting the pisslims hordes get away with massacring you instead of the other way around? Jews dying proves virtue?
There is no moral, political or military justification for even one of you to die at the hands of a stinking pisslim. None.
And everybody knows that you are quite capable of bringing about a final solution to the terrorstinean problem.
You just don’t want to.
You just don’t want to win.
You are simply terrified of winning.
Because to win you would have to do what you fear the most, look (to fools) like the bad guys.
You would have to kill pisslims. Wholesale.
It’s OK. Well . . . it’s actually not REALLY OK; it’s stupid, infuriating, immoral and hypocritical of the government to waste everybody’s time and patience with all the “we will not allow this” and “if they test us then we will do that” and so on and so forth. Pitiful.
First of all you need to define winning.
My modest proposal is to carry out all the military and security operations that will guarantee putting the stinking pisslim terrorstineans into such a situation that they are incapable of further terror operations against Israelis.
Then you need to define what you have to do to bring about the above.
And then you have to f#cking do it.
You can.
But do you want to?
Do you want to win?
Do you want to survive?
Or do you prefer to moan and whine and wring your hands and gnash your teeth and be as pitiful and ridiculous as you have been so far?
You are giving a spectacle with no dignity of a bunch of stinking pisslim cannibals driving you around on all fours with their boots up your @ss.
You had what . . . 70 years to learn that no stinking pisslim cannibal is going to be your friend?
THEY WANT TO KILL YOU!!!
Will you stop pussyfooting around and start KILLING THEM FIRST, ALREADY?!!!
Otherwise . . . since we Jews are supposed to be intelligent . . . make some f#cking plan to leave Israel to the pisslims and move somewhere else.
Because this? . . . This is behind stupid. I know you don’t see it. Because wherever you have your heads stuck? Well . . . common sense doesn’t seem to operate there.
WTF, in the name of decency, does “never again” mean to you?
Because for the rest of the world it seems it means “always the same”
Because you let the stinking pisslims do always the same.
And you do always the same: nothing. Yes, not winning is NOTHING. You are doing nothing.
Admit it, already. You don’t want to win.
If you had ever wanted to win you would have won, already.
And let me give some little pieces of advice: the end always justifies the means, Kahane was right and you need the Israeli version of a 2nd Amendment, and pronto.
But you won’t do what you should do. You will pay no attention.
Well . . . the pisslims are going to do what they see as what they have to do . . . because you let them.
And we will see a 2nd Holocaust.
And half the world will applaud and half the world will go “soooooo saaaaaad . . .” and Israel will be no more and most of you will be dead.
It’s coming.
And you are going to do nothing about it.
Admit this is what you want.
Because if you didn’t then you would be doing something about it.
Like winning.

@Jorge_Banner. very eloquently said. true. it looks like Bibi does not want to hit Hamas because he is trying to show that he has a soft heart for the population in Gaza. he even said to the Iranian people that he would help them with their water shortage. something seems to be wrong with him. he is doing what Moshe Dayuan did after 1967…. not a good idea. the Muzzies know how to use this softness to their advantage. they also know how to deal with the UN which is completely against Israel. it is time for Bibi to either give the reins to the IDF or to resign from being the Defense Minister. his approach does not benefit Israel.

The sewer pipe gasoline explosion was in 1992 in Guadalajara.
Search for that and look at the images.
And that was just a little sewer pipe. Think how big the explosion would be with a much larger diameter tunnel filled with explosive vapors.

It is time to expel all palestinians from Israel soil and declare a buffer zone adjacent to its borders as potential war zone that impairs Israel’s security.
Contrary to the two-state solution, which splits Israel between the Israelis and the Palestinians, Israeli scholar Mordechai Nisan proposes that the land west of the Jordan River should be granted to Israel alone.
It became conventional and universally acceptable that there should be a Palestinian state next to Israel, west of the Jordan River.”This was a theme that was embedded in the Oslo Accords from 1993 and central to various rounds of negotiations, which took place in the last 20 years between the Israelis and the Palestinians,” he explained.
But a Palestinian state hasn’t surfaced and the reasons for that are many. There is a grave incompatibility between what Israel needs for its own well being and national military integrity, its right to settlements in the land of Israel, and what the Palestinians demand, which is a Palestinian state emptied of any Jews and a Palestinian state, which is not ready to recognize Israel as a Jewish state at all. Therefore, it’s not surprising that after 20 years, no agreement has been reached.
“My book proposes a different way of looking at the problem and the different solution and it is based on the idea that only Israel west of the river, meaning that there should only be one state west of the Jordan River, which is the state of Israel,”.
“That is a symbol of the historical biblical rite of the Jewish people to their homeland to which they returned in large numbers over the last 100 years,” he said.
“That small piece of territory from let us say Tel Aviv to Jericho, from the Mediterranean Sea to the Jordan River, is only about 35 miles in width and it’s unable to accommodate two states, two growing peoples, no less in a situation of conflict and violent engagement. May years trying to figure out how to partition Israel and a future Palestinian state have met with failure and the time has come to recognize that the land cannot be divided. That’s the starting point for all solutions. There can be no division of the land. All the rest, all of the arrangements, are open for discussion. For Israel to have safe borders, their border to the east must end at the Jordan River. The Palestinian can be given Jordan, which is where they should have been if not for a back door deal with Lord Balfour that gave what is now Jordan to the Heshimite family, who created the Kingdom of Transjordan now Jordan. 60% of Jordan are already Palestinians.
Everyone wants Israel to return land. I suggest they live by Example. Israel will leave Samaria & Judea when the USA returns, California, Nevada, New Mexico & Texas to the Mexicans. Russia returns the Crimea, and Germany returns land that belongs to Poland (There are over 100 countries that would love to have some of their land back) etc.
In the decade following the Balfour declaration in 1917, more than 100,000 Jews migrated to Palestine from Europe, and by 1948 that number had reached half a million. Many of these European Jews did not migrate to Palestine to co-exist in harmony with the Arab majority, but to help fulfill the Zionist goal of establishing a Jewish state with a Jewish majority. There are countless records of statements made by Zionist leaders between 1920 and 1948 on the need to remove all Arabs from the ‘Land of Israel’ in order to make a Jewish state with a Jewish majority viable.

Today, painlessly, without problems, Hamas is bombing Israel, Hamas sets fire to the Kibbutz fields in Israel. What is Mufti Bibi lying about in his fatwa again? Mad old man.
Bibi who will bomb Israel next?